If the morning is dull, cloudy, rainy, or disagreeable in any way, let a few very cheerful songs precede your day's work. If the lessons are a little harder than usual, "shake the cobwebs from the brain" with a playful song. If your pupils have a great desire to go home before the close of school, the practice of having something good to sing at the close will help to mend this matter.

Supply yourself with a variety of songs, and teach a new one frequently. Some day your school is in disorder, you hardly know why. All else failing to effect a reform, a new song, perhaps, is just what you want.

Another says. "I can sing, but have failed in my endeavors to introduce it into my school." There are several items that ought carefully to be attended

to in order to be successful in this work.

First, your songs must be school songs. By a school song we do not mean that it necessarily sings of school, of scholars, of teacher, or of anything connected with schools, although it may sing of all these. A school song must have pleasant words, often funny. They must be such as will be comprehended easily. Comic songs have no place in the school room. The music must be as new and fresh as possible, and that of a lively character is mostly needed.

When you have selected your song, if your school is not supplied with books, it will assist you very much to write words on the board.

If the song is short or very pleasant-either the music or words-a few times singing the song by the teacher will be sufficient to teach it to your school.

If the song is rather long, or of not so lively a nature, a few words or a line can be sung at once, and the school required to sing after you. By singing a few times through in this way, you will find nearly all able to sing it throughout.

Care should be taken in the manner of singing. All songs must not be sung alike, in quantity of tone. When we are talking of different subjects, the tone of our voice changes as the subject changes or varies. If we are talking of

the merry sleigh-ride or of the beautiful brooklet, or of the rain storm, our tones and manner correspond to the subject of which we are talking. So in singing the same must be observed. Every body is much interested in variety and if the variety is natural, it is still more pleasant.

One of the greatest objections to singing in schools is the tendency to sing too loud. Most children think the first element of good singing is power. But let the teacher bear in mind that excessively loud singing will result in the destruction of the children's voices. Almost all children sing well, but in adults we find a small per cent. of good singers.—Illinois Teacher.

"Praise ye the Lord; let them praise Him in the dance, let them sing praises to Him with the timbrel and the harp; praise Him in the sanctuary; praise Him in the firmament of His power,' for Lee has surrendered; the arm of the mighty is broken.

EDITORIAL MISCELLANY.

BARNARD'S AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION.

We take pleasure in transferring the following to our pages. If Ohio can by a good "Buckeye lift" make a sale for one hundred sets in that State, Wisconsin by a correspondiug Badger lift can take at least one-third as many:

"The publication of this great national work was undertaken by Dr. Barnard in 1856, after a consultation and with the approbation of several of the prominent educators, teachers and scholars of the country, for the purpose not only of contributing to the current discussion of elementary and public schools, as ordinarily understood, but for the elaborate and exhaustive presentation of the whole subject of education-its history, biography, systems, institutions, principles, methods, instruments, and statistics, in different countries and ages, so as to embody the matured views and varied experience of wise statemen, educators and teachers, in perfecting the organization, administration, instruction and discipline of schools of every grade through a succession of years, under widely varying circumstances of government, society and religion. In spite of great pecuniary sacrifices and liabilities, and with but little co-operation from the practical teachers of the country, he has zealously prosecuted the original plan and, as we learn from the contents of the March number before us, has entered upon the fifteenth volume.

"We learn that the completion of this great undertaking which is nothing less than an encyclopedian view of the past, present and prospective civilization of the human race, will depend upon the publisher's success in placing sets of the work in the libraries of the country, public and private-school, college and social. If through the assistance of the friends of the enterprise in the several States, from three to four hundred sets can be sold, Dr. Barnard will go on and complete the twenty volumes which the plan requires; without such substantial aid, he must abandon the enterprise at the close of the current volume. For his own services, including a life-long collection and accumulation of materials, he neither asks for nor expects any pecuniary reward. The completion of the work depends upon the one condition that the liabilities already incurred in carrying it forward to this point, be met.

"We appeal with confidence to the public-spirited educators of Ohio, to take hold of this great enterprise and give it a strong Buckeye lift. We can easily, if we will, place at least one hundred sets of the work in our public and pri vate libraries. The fifteen octavo volumes of nearly eight hundred pages each, (equal in quantity of matter to nearly one volumes like Page's Theory and Practice of Teaching), embrace more of the History, Biography, Systems,

and Institutions, as well as of the Science and Art of Education, than can be obtained in any other form accessible to the American student.

"The fifteenth volume will complete the history of ancient education and the school systems of Europe, including Public Schools, Normal Schools, Military Schools, Schools of Agriculture, Science, Trade, Navigation, Schools of Theology, Law and Medicine, Reform Schools, Houses of Refuge-in a word, all European institutions of education, general or special, liberal or elementary. The fifteen volumes present also the general history of education in this country with an account of the means and agencies by which its wonderful progress has been effected. The discussions of the principles and methods of instruction present the views of leading educators on both sides of the Atlantic.

The table of contents of the March number containing 320 octavo pages, will give some idea of the scope and character of the work as a whole :

I. The American Doctrine of Public Education.

VI.

Documentary History of Normal Schools.

VII. American School Society.

VIII. English Educators and Teachers-Sir Henry Walton.

XIX. Historical Development of Common Schools in Connecticut.

The public as well as private libraries of this country are sadly deficient in educational works. This fact should create an immediate demand for this great national work, and send the self-sacrificing editor on his way rejoicing. The fifteen volumes will be complete in themselves, making them exceedingly desirable without reference to the continuation of the work.-Ohio Ed. Monthly.

MILWAUKEE COMMERCIAL COLLEGE.

It gives us much pleasure to notice the claims and record the success of this Institution, which has been in operation some twelve or eighteen months. It is one of the chain of Business Colleges established by Messrs. BRYANT, STRATTON & SPENCER, and extending through the principal cities of the loyal States and the Canadas, from Portland to St. Louis. The Course of Instruction embraces every thing in the commercial world, and its extent will best be seen by observing the names of the Faculty and their respective Departments, as given below. The subject of Insurance is about to be added to the list. The Initiatory and Graduating Courses of Study, so far as we can judge, cover the whole ground of a business education most thoroughly, embracing

not mere theory, but actual and varied practice in business transactions. The national character and varied experience of this chain of Colleges give especial facilities and advantages not to be found in isolated single schools. The Faculty at Milwaukee are as follows:

ROBT. C. SPENCER, (Resident Principal), Instructor in Commercial Sciences and Spencerian Penmanship.

EDWIN P. ELSBREE, Instructor in Actual Business Department.
MARTIN M. BACON, Instructor in Initiatory Business Department.
MRS. D. P. KINNEY, Instructor in Initiatory Book-Keeping Department.

T. PARSONS SAWIN, Instructor in Commercial Calculations.

LAURA L. BARRIS, Teacher of Practical and Ornamental Penmanship. JAMES MCALLISTER, Instructor in Commercial Law and Lecturer in Commercial History and Literature.

EFFIE L. BURNETTE, teacher of Telegraphing.

Says the Milwaukee Wisconsin:

"This institution has now been established in our city about a year, and during that time has been constantly growing in favor with the public, and has prospered beyond the anticipation of the proprietors. The institution is situated in Young's Block, on Wisconsin street. The rooms are airy, convenient and fitted up with much taste with all the appliances necessary to an institution of the kind. They overlook the bay and a good portion of the city, and while they command a view of the busy scenes of city life, they are so situated that the students are not disturbed by noise. Rooms have been fitted up for the accommodation of female students, quite a number of whom are now in

attendance."

For Terms and full particulars address R. C. Spencer, Principal, Milwaukee.

EDUCATIONAL JOURNALS.

We give a full list of the various School Journals published in the United States, with the subscription prices. Every first class teacher, permanently located in a school, ought to subscribe for at least four good journals. First of all it is his duty to take Barnard's Journal of Education:

Barnard's Journal of Education.-$4.00 per annum.

ard, Hartford, Conn.

American Educational Monthly.-$1.50 per annum.

Bancroft & Co., New York.

Address Henry Barn

Address Schermerhorn,

Illinois Teacher.-$1.50 per annum. Address N. C. Nason, Peoria, Ill. Massachusetts Teacher.-$1.50 per annum. Address G. B. Putman, Boston,

Mass.

Rhode Island Schoolmaster.-$1.00 per annum. Providence, R. I.

New York Teacher.-$1.00 per annum. Address J. Munsell, Albany, N. Y.

Ohio Educational Monthly.-$1.50 per annum. Address E. E. White, Colum

bus, Ohio.

Vermont School Journal.-$1.00.

Vermont.

Address Millikin & Burt, Brattleboro,

Address J. B. Pradt,

Wisconsin Journal of Education.-$1.00 per annum.

Madison, Wis. Publication suspended.

Pennsylvania School Journal.-$1.00 per annum. Address Thos. H. Burrowes, Lancaster, Pa.

Connecticut Common School Journal.-$1.00 per annum. Address Charles Northend, New Britain, Conn.

Iowa Instructor and School Journal.-$1.50 per annum. Address Mills & Co.,

Des Moines, Iowa.

Indiana School Journal.-$1.25 per annum. Address Geo. W. Hoss, Indianapolis, Ind.

Maryland School Journal.-$1.00 per annum.

Hagarstown, Md.

Address J. P. Harmon & Co.,

Kansas Educational Journal.-$1.00 per annum.
Leavenworth, Kansas.

The California Teacher.-$1.00 per annum.
co, Cal.

Journal of Education.-$1.00 per annum.
Toronto, Ca.

Address H. D. McCarty,

Address Box 1,977, San Francis

Address J. George Hodgins, LL.B.

WOOD Co.-Notwithstanding stormy weather, the Institute at Grand Rapids near the close of March, was more largely attended than usual, bringing out 40. In addition to the usual exercises, evening lectures were delivered by Revds Harris and Ames of Grand Rapids, Supt. Alban of Portage county, and Dr. Witter, the County Superintendeut. Special instruction for a Normal Class was provided for another week, and arrangements exist for such a class in connection with the Union School, which the teachers seem disposed to avail themselves of. Wood county is evidently progressing.

FOND DU LAC Co.-From the Report in the Commonwealth, the Institute, called at Fond du Lac, by Supt. Cundall, and commencing April 3, was a large and enthusiastic gathering. Not less than 200 were in attendance. J. C. Pickard, agent of the Normal Board, had the principal charge, Supt. McMynn being also present a part of the time and rendering aid in his usual instructive and effecive manner. Exercises were also conducted by Prest. R. Z. Mason, of Lawrence University, O. C. Steenburg, Principal of Fond du Lac High School, N. P. Gage, Principal of Ripon High School, Dr. A. Hoyt and others. The evening lectures were by Prest. Mason, Prest. E. W. Merriman, of Ripon College, O. C. Steenburg and Supt. McMynn. The efforts of the County Supt. Rev. I. N. Cundall, to have a profitable Institute, appear to have been highly success